Loveland

I. INTRODUCTION

Currently before this Court is a Motion to Transfer Venue pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a) filed by Defendant, Facebook, Inc. (Mot. to Transfer, ECF No. 12.) In its Motion, Facebook seeks transfer of this action to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. (Id.) The remaining named Defendants, Mark Zuckerberg, FactCheck.org, Poynter Institute for Media Studies, Inc., and Lead Stories, LLC, filed a Joinder in Facebook’s Motion to Transfer. (Joinder, ECF No. 14.) Plaintiffs, Sally Loveland, Sharon Cheatle, Janine Cortese, Tyler Boyle, and Steve McCann (“Plaintiffs”) filed an Opposition to the Motion to Transfer. (Opp., ECF No. 16.) The Court finds the Motion to Transfer appropriate for resolution without oral argument. Fed. R. Civ. P. 78; L.R. 7.1(f). For the reasons set forth in this Memorandum, the Motion to Transfer will be granted and this matter will be transferred to the Northern District of California pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a).

II. BACKGROUND

As pled in the Complaint, Plaintiffs are individual members of the Facebook social networking website who undertook the mission of using their Facebook accounts to spread…